Cinema 4D Release 20 marks a huge leap in technology, introducing massive new frameworks that put tremendous power in your creative hands. The possibilities are endless, your creativity is unleashed – it’s time to jump in the deep end.

General
Faster Picture Viewer playback
Speed and memory optimizations
Installer Command Line Interface (CLI) mode

Exchange
SketchUp
Update to SketchUp 2018 SDK
Null objects with only one child polygon object now create one combined object instead
Alembic
Update to Alembic 1.7.7 SDK
Performance improvements by caching matrices
Users can now bake selected objects to Alembic
New animation retiming controls
Set Frame (for manual animation control via keyframes)
Offset Animation
Playback modes (Play, Loop, Ping Pong)
Speed setting
Time Remap Curve Interface
FBX
Update to FBX 2018.1.1
Support for instances
Axis preferences:
Flip Z Axis
Up Axis (Default, X, Y, Z)
New CAD imports (CATIA V5, JT, Solidworks, STEP, IGES)
Houdini upgrade to 16.5.536
AI importer: Illustrator splines now load in at the correct scale